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Drawing, Floating Icebergs with Coastal View, Canada
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July 2, 1859 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite and white gouache on light brown paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
In the far North, Church encountered a landscape of water and ice. His sketches reveal a fascination with the varied forms of icebergs, shaped by the elements. Waves, currents, sunshine, and storms acted on each iceberg to produce unique surface patterns. Some icebergs revealed fresh fractures, sharply cut like broken porcelain. Others were rounded and polished by the weather.
This object was
donated by
Louis P. Church.
It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.
- Drawing, Icebergs, Canada
- graphite and white gouache on light brown wove paper.
- Gift of Louis P. Church.
- 1917-4-273-b
Its dimensions are
11.5 × 21 cm (4 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped: in black ink, lower left, L.457c; in black ink, verso lower center, L.457d
It is inscribed
Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: Land; in graphite, upper right: July 2d /59; in graphite, center right: Ice bergs; in graphite lower left: Ice berg - enormous size / 3 1/2 miles distant / strange resemblance to a house
Cite this object as
Drawing, Floating Icebergs with Coastal View, Canada; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite and white gouache on light brown paper; 11.5 × 21 cm (4 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-273-a
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition After Icebergs.
